LIKE RATS ABANDONING A SINKING SHIP, THOSE FROM ‘BLUE’ STATES CONTINUE TO FLOCK TO STATES THAT ARE ‘RED’…

It would seem that we just might be witnessing that familiar old adage that says, “Even a crazy person will run out of a burning building,” now playing out right before our eyes. Or perhaps a more appropriate analogy for what we’re seeing take place in this country would be, “Like rats abandoning a sinking ship” when it comes to the many Americans now escaping the hellholes that many of them actually played a part in creating. Now that is not to say that all of those folks who are now heading for the hills played a role in the destruction of their city, but I have no doubt that many of them did, if in no other way than who they chose to vote for, or continue to vote for.

And it is those folks who must be considered as being nothing more than locusts now in search of the next fertile field they can then destroy. Apparently, it was from 2020 to 2022 that roughly two million American chose to leave some of America’s largest cities, at least according to a report from the Economic Innovation Group. And it’s according to that data that roughly 1.2 million fled these areas from July 2020 to July 2021 alone.  And about 861,000 fled urban counties the following year. And again according to the data, domestic outmigration from large urban counties to suburbs and exurbs continued in 2022, though at a slower pace than the year prior.

And so over 1.2 million people left large urban counties between July 1, 2020 and July 1, 2021, with nearly 800,000 flowing into the suburbs and exurbs, this movement continued into 2022. Large urban counties trimmed losses to 861,000 last year, while inflows to the suburbs halved and domestic migration to exurban counties fell by one-quarter. The data also found that “exurban and suburban counties continued to benefit from domestic migration, adding over 800,000 new residents from other county types on net.” Blue states experienced their greatest population loss in 2022, including 343,000 folks from California and almost 300,000 from New York.

Personally, these leftwing voters should be made to stay in the socialist utopias that they constructed for themselves, rather than infecting other regions of the country. But I would argue that that ship has likely sailed since we allowed radicals takeover our education system and indoctrinate at least three generations. In the 60s and 70s it was all about not trusting the government, now it is how dare you question the government. What happened to those anti-government students? Well, it seems that they’ve grown up to be government hacks. Just look at how many are still wearing the worthless mask despite all the evidence that they are worthless?

To be perfectly blunt, so many of our large cities have today become nothing more than places where white individuals go to be mugged, or assaulted, or even killed. The smart ones are leaving or have already left. Democrats have destroyed so many of America’s once-great cities. And many of those individuals now leaving are doing so in an effort to flee those politicians that they themselves elected. It makes no sense, none at all. It seems to matter little what ‘blue’ state they come from, they tend to bring all their desires of having things the way they were used to. Unfortunately, I’m in one of those states, Florida, to which a number of them have chosen to flee.

They sell their high dollar real estate in whichever big city they came from and then happily relocate to here where their money goes a lot farther and provides them the ability to gobble up just about everything in sight because of property values that used to be lower. This results in higher costs in real estate because of demand. Because they have invaded, good luck finding a home for sale that you can afford, because of the masterful job that Joey, and the Democrats have done on our failing economy! I can understand why people flee blue hellscapes. But, at some point the left needs to be destroyed before they destroy us. This is NOT a good thing.

While we can only hope that they leave their politics at the state line, there’s no guarantee that that will be the case. They cannot be trusted not to bring their baggage with them and not to immediately begin to transform their new area into something that more closely resembles the cesspool they left behind. This is good for no one. Not that I don’t blame them, I suppose, I would likely do the same were I in their position. But when moving in they typically bring their voting patterns, and their rudeness, with them, the same voting patterns, and same rudeness, that they used to create the very same mess that they chose to leave in the first place.

And at least as important as the number leaving, is the ‘who’ that’s leaving, and to some extent the ‘who’ that is replacing them. I know from looking at the numbers that many of those choosing to leave are middle- and upper-income taxpayers. They are leaving in even larger numbers than shown because some of them are being replaced by low income, homeless, druggies, illegal immigrants, etc., who don't pay taxes and receive lots of free stuff. These leftist refugees fleeing blue cities have no one to blame but themselves. They’re no better than the illegals who abandon their failed countries and expect America to give them citizenship.

Finally, I question if these same ‘blue’ cities, and states, can survive with their ever-higher taxes, needed to plug the growing hole of their own making, that will only convince more people to leave. Which means fewer payers, higher taxes, resulting in even more folks leaving. And you have to know that, at some point, these mayors and governors will be turning to Washington for a bailout, which means we will all get to pay for their mess. Would I be considered a conspiracy nut if I were to ponder that there has long been a leftist strategy to impose policies so odious to free people, that those who favor freedom and limited government would leave if they could, leaving the jurisdiction they left behind even ‘bluer?’